Sabin Pautza

Sabin Pautza has been widely recognized as a conductor, composer and teacher in his native Romania and in Europe (International Who's Who in Music and Musicians, Cambridge, England). He received his Master of Fine Arts in Music from the Bucharest Academy of Music in 1965 and studied composition at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana, Siena, Italy with Franco Donatoni. Among the awards he has received are the George Enesco Prize from the Romanian Academy, First Prize from the Composers Union, Bucharest, and the Honorable Mention at the International Composition Contest in Salt Lake City. Most recently, Mr. Pautza received Honorable Mention at the Nissim National Composition Contest for his "Sinfonia Sacra," commissioned by the Choral Art Society of New Jersey. He also won First Prize in the Ma